“It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning…”

“In fact, this infinitesimally spread-out consciousness is a direct feeling of its contents as spread out. In an infinitesimal interval we directly perceive the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle, and end… Now upon this interval follows another, whose beginning is the middle of the former, and whose middle is the end of the former. Here we have an immediate perception of the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle and end, or say, of the second, third, and fourth instants.”

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.”

“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”

“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”

“For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.”

“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”